A Real-Time Impedance Based Method to Assess Rhodococcus equi Virulence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Miranda CasoLuengo, Aleksandra A ^a   Miranda CasoLuengo, Raúl ^a   Lieggi, Nora T ^a   Luo, Haixia ^a   Simpson, Jeremy C ^a   Meijer, Wim G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE BASED REAL TIME METHOD; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VAPA GENE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HORSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MUTATION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84875506714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060612     Document Type: Article

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